Staging the Political: Repetition, Difference, and Daniel, Buren's Ca banes Eelatees

摘要

To write an interpretive essay on the work of an artist who is also a prolific writer is inherently fraught with perils. Surely, any serious attempt to understand Daniel Buren's visual work demands that it be read alongside the artist's extensive writings in which he not only alerts us to where and how to look at his work but also locates the areas or registers where the meaning effects occur. Let us therefore enter into a dialogue with not only Buren's visual practice but his critical and analytical writings as well, in order to try to specify the kinds of meaning that pass through and between those registers-to try to get below the surface of his statements.